Episode #8: The War on Goop 

I thought this was gonna be about Goop the Paltrow lifestyle company 🤣 Here in Canada we call the hospital food “slurry” but yea, essentially gross goop. Outrageous to see in a place of healing. It’s all about saving dollars in the short end while its detrimental effects take years to surface.

What hope does the world have to heal when there is a huge HUGE incentive to keep everyone sick in every dimension?

Choose serotonin from eating whole healthy foods not dopamine hits from goop. Came super easy for me to choose happy moods with healthy foods.

Hi Derek and Laura, When it comes to eating foods that are actually healthy, the intellectual ability to make the necessary determination is way beyond the thinking capability of the vast majority of people. That fact makes the generation and conveyance of "goop" (aka marketing hyperbole) quite easy. And I say easy because doing so does not take much in the way of creativity. Rather, it simply requires an awareness of the human vulnerability that exists as a result of the "quick-fix/easy-to-do/feel-good/emotion-driven/follow-the-crowd/knee-jerk" thinking and behaving tendencies that already exist in human nature. Maybe Mother Nature (aka natural selection) is responsible for this tendency's existence if for no other reason than simply on the basis of it requiring less energy expenditure than critical thinking. IF so, than any solution that requires a greater energy expenditure is much less likely to be effective - if at all - than one that competes at the same or lower level.... Higher-order thinking and behaving - despite the greater benefits it's capable of delivering - requires too much energy. And quite interestingly, there's a good analog in the realm of physics. It revolves around the notion of entropy (i.e., the on-going tendency of ALL SYSTEMS and NON-SYSTEMS to move in the direction of a more chaotic/random, lower energy state-of-being). With the on-going input of the energy necessary to counteract natural entropy via the creation/introduction of more "STRUCTURE/ORGANIZATION" everything (including human thinking and behaving) will display a natural tendency toward a lower energy, more chaotic/disorganized state-of-being. Ergo, the prognosis for human thinking and behaving ability to attain and sustain the higher-order levels of thinking and behaving necessary to address/overcome the WICKED PROBLEMS that all of humanity is being confronted with turns out to be pretty bleak. Special Note 1: One of the greatest driving forces that is moving human thinking and behaving in the WRONG direction (i.e., toward a lower-order, more chaotic state-of-being) is GREED, or the constant drive for obtaining more than is truly necessary to sustain a constant state of well-being. Special Note 2: My recommendation to both of you - given your THINKING ABILITIES - is to stop focusing on describing/classifying/explaining what exists in the way of human weaknesses and start focusing your higher-order thinking abilities on how to deal with the ROOT CAUSES of the degradation of human thinking and problem-solving abilities en masse. And, at the ROOT CAUSE LEVEL, you'd need to explore the growing tendency toward acquiring more that results in greater and greater levels of inequality. At that root level, you'll be addressing the existence of the likes of: greed, corruption, authoritarianism, religiosity, revenge, bigotry, discrimination, egocentrism, etc. PS - the more goop a human being consumes, the more it negatively impacts their ability to engage in higher-order thinking and behaving and the more it degrades their body's ability to counteract the natural forces of entropy and not die prematurely or slowly over a prolonged period of time. Check out the 2015 book entitled "HOW NOT TO DIE" by Dr. Michael Gregor, MD, FACIM.